NASA is set to provide a first peek for the public at what scientists found inside a tightly sealed canister that was returned to Earth last month carrying the largest soil sample ever scooped up from the surface of an asteroid.
Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research director Dominique Weis expects a sample of up to a few hundred milligrams from the asteroid Bennu to arrive by the end of November.
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